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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English and French : variant of Anctil.
  • English : possibly a habitational name from Ampthill in Bedfordshire, named from Old English ǣmette ‘ants’ + hyll ‘hill’, or from an Ampthill, now lost, in Cumbria.

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